The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 221 - 206 The First One!_1

Chapter 221: Chapter 206 The First One!_1

Second Peak.

"Has this kid gone mad? The race battles are still ongoing, how dare he!"

Individual Cultivator Huang Qi was aghast, his color drained.

He rubbed his hair anxiously, watching the Star-shattering Umbrella grow increasingly enormous, and growled in frustration, "He’s trapped Lou Yunming with the Star-shattering Umbrella, could it be... he also intends to kill this man?"

Once Pang Jian laid a hand on Lou Yunming, no matter the outcome, Pang Jian would become the target of public anger.

Most likely, Pang Jian would also be killed by Lou Yunming beneath the umbrella.

"You’re too insane, kid, I can’t get involved with you, this goes against the principles of the Human Race!"

Huang Qi paced back and forth at the mountain summit.

Besides him, scattered across various mountain peaks and valleys, were clan elders from great families like Xie Xiwen, and they couldn’t see the situation at the mountaintop clearly.

The Star-shattering Umbrella also disappeared from their line of sight.

From their lower vantage point, no matter how they looked up into the sky, they couldn’t see the Star-shattering Umbrella that had ascended to the peak and was no longer on the edge.

Those watching the Star-shattering Umbrella were now clueless about what had become of the umbrella after it had ascended the mountain.

"Ascend the mountain!"

"Since Elder Liang Ying has already gone ahead, shouldn’t we follow?"

"Or should we wait and see?"

The Spirit Condensation Realm clan elders and the Spirit Condensation Realm individual cultivators who had left the summit felt that the one who went up first was Liang Ying. As they came to eradicate the Alien Tribes, they clamored and gathered towards the First Peak.

...

"Yin Spirit Temple, Lou Yunming."

With a thought controlling the Star-shattering Umbrella, as if existing in another world, Pang Jian, holding a long spear, floated down to the ground.

"You’re the first."

Pang Jian spoke indifferently.

"First? What do you mean?"

The Yin Spirit Temple Elder, who had schemed against Pang Jian and now held the Black Crow Pot with a calm exterior, felt his heart start to churn like a stormy sea.

He found that in the world beneath the umbrella, he could no longer communicate with the outside.

His spiritual power, his profound and unfathomable divine sense, incredibly could not escape beyond the umbrella and break the Star-shattering Umbrella’s confinement!

He wasn’t familiar with Liang Ying, but they knew each other.

This high-level Spiritual Artifact that belonged to Liang Ying, even in her own hands, would never have such terrifying divine might that it could isolate him from the outside world!

He didn’t know.

When rays of alien light spilled from the umbrella and touched the rocky ground at the summit, they connected with the spiritual veins buried deep within the earth.

Some of the mysteries that belonged to Cao Mang’s "Heavenly Killing Spirit Array" thereby connected with the Star-shattering Umbrella, allowing Pang Jian to wield the divine skills and secrets of the great array’s master.

It was for this reason that his divine sense and spiritual power couldn’t pass through the Star-shattering Umbrella and couldn’t perceive changes in the outside world.

Likewise.

None of the cultivators outside, whether through sight or divine sense, could see past the divine light and alien power falling from the Star-shattering Umbrella, remaining blind and unaware of the situation beneath the umbrella.

"You will be the first that I kill."

Pang Jian provided the answer.

"You want to kill me? Pang Jian, you..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lou Yunming’s eyes, fierce a moment ago, were suddenly replaced by panic.

"Hisss-Crack!"

Beneath his feet, sharp spiritual forces woven from the "Heavenly Killing Spirit Array" appeared suddenly, slicing into his soles and muddling the flesh of his lower legs with blood.

"Cao Mang!"

Lou Yunming once again turned pale with rage.

"He has always been in cahoots with the ferocious beasts of the Alien Tribes, just to suddenly dismantle this wicked array when you all think you’re assured of victory, coordinating with the array and Alien Tribes to slaughter all of you."

Pang Jian bluffed confidently.

Yet, the Astonishing Spear in his hand was not idle.

"Boom!"

A thunderous noise like the sky splitting erupted.

Tangles of bright, eye-dazzling orbs formed at the tip of the Astonishing Spear and crashed down towards Lou Yunming’s head.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!"

Like a resplendent star river, the umbrella’s surface cast off starlight like meteors, with Moon Energy transforming into sharp blades and cold forces condensing into icicle blades.

In the entire world beneath the umbrella, countless bizarre alien powers that made Lou Yunming’s eyes dazzle attacked from beneath his feet, his head, and all around him!

Lou Yunming, feeling chaotic and overwhelmed, quickly gathered a few strands of divine sense, escaping his Sea of Consciousness to enter the Black Crow Pot.

"Go!"

He threw the Black Crow Pot at Pang Jian.

A pitch-black crow, screeching as it flew out of the pot, spread its wings.

Hundreds of Spirit Evils transformed into the crow’s wings, beak, pupils, and talons.

An icy chill, exuding the breath of souls, fluttered up with the crow’s wingbeats, locking its sable eyes onto Pang Jian.

A beam of black soul thread, at the instant it targeted Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness, tried to pierce through Pang Jian’s brow.

It meant to invade Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness.

"Devour soul!"

Lou Yunming’s scream echoed as he frantically defended against the barrage of attacks.

The sharp tip of the Astonishing Spear suddenly ignited into blazing flames, radiating heat that seared everything, and struck the black thread stretching towards his brow with unerring precision.

"Boom!"

The terrifying solar brilliance of the spear tip, mixed with the magma juice of the Flame Pool, infused spiritual power into a thin black line.

Within the magnified black line by a million times, pitch-black crows, engulfed by flames and a sea of magma, screamed miserably as they dissolved rapidly.

Those crows, which should have slipped into Pang Jian’s Sea of Consciousness and devoured his divine sense and soul, died instantly.

The violent magma juice and the sun’s light that incinerated unclean evil entities, followed that fine black line directly into the great black crow made up of numerous Spirit Evils.

At that time, Pang Jian also casually threw out a "Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder."

With a "rumble," the power of the thunderbolt erupted, and the eerie black crow was blown to pieces, then swept away by the magma flames, dead beyond dead.

With the death of the black crow, the Spirit Evils were annihilated, directly reflected in Lou Yunming’s body.

Lou Yunming immediately bled from all seven orifices, suffering a heavy soul injury, his mind and the connection to his body stalling, and in the blink of an eye, he was overwhelmed by countless blades of light, coldness, and meteors.

By the time Pang Jian took a closer look, he saw that apart from his head, there was not a single intact part on Lou Yunming’s body.

"The first one."

Pang Jian stepped forward, casually twisted up the Black Crow Pot to throw it into his storage ring, then cut off Lou Yunming’s head.

"Back then, if she had an artifact capable of storing Spirit Evils, she wouldn’t have been captured alive by Cao Mang outside of Yuanmang."

Pang Jian sighed, then wrapped Lou Yunming’s bloody head in a piece of rag and tucked it away.

He didn’t hurry to leave the world covered by the Star-shattering Umbrella, but rapidly replayed the battle in his mind, pondering over the details of the recent fight.

The marvel of the Star-shattering Umbrella, the power of the Heavenly Killing Spirit Array, combined with his demigod-like perception and insight, made killing a high-level cultivator like Lou Yunming not so difficult, after all.

Apart from Lou Yunming’s Sea of Consciousness that remained inscrutable, Pang Jian could clearly see even the wisps of divine sense that leaked out of it.

He saw Lou Yunming divert his divine sense into the body of the crow in the pot, enlivening the Spirit Evils wrapped in divine sense.

He noticed the subtle ripples in Lou Yunming’s Spiritual Sea, and through the movements of spiritual power inside Lou Yunming’s body, he could even anticipate Lou Yunming’s next step.

As long as he locked onto the movements of the spiritual power and divine sense, he could foresee the initiative, naturally responding with appropriate defenses.

Under such pre-emptive insight, killing a Great Cultivator of the Spirit Condensation Realm who was a level higher became a matter of course, with hardly any difficulty.

After mulling over the battle, Pang Jian nodded slightly, then took hold of the umbrella handle.

"Whoosh!"

The brilliant light that had fallen to the ground retracted into the umbrella’s surface like water flowing backward.

As the giant umbrella slowly rose into the air, the world that had been covered unveiled itself once more.

Pang Jian, in blue clothes unstained by blood, held the Astonishing Spear in his right hand, using the tip to poke the ground.

The stars twinkled, and the bright moon poured its clear light from the hovering umbrella surface.

Pang Jian’s stern and upright figure, bathed in the cool, dazzling light, appeared extraordinarily imposing, difficult not to draw attention.

Before him lay the decapitated body of the Yin Spirit Temple elder, broken and bloodied beyond recognition.

The onlookers at the mountaintop could only identify the deceased as Lou Yunming by the remnants of clothing on the mutilated limbs.

"Pang..."

The Individual Cultivator with Spirit Condensation Realm cultivation, Lian Feng, looked at Pang Jian under the Star-shattering Umbrella, and then glanced at the incomplete remains of Lou Yunming. He was so terrified that he couldn’t even utter the word "Jian."

It was as if daring to call out Pang Jian’s full name would bring upon Pang Jian’s wrath.

"Lou Yunming is dead!"

"Pang Jian killed an elder of the Yin Spirit Temple!"

"My heavens, how could he dare?"

The Great Cultivators who glanced at Pang Jian were each shocked out of their wits, their battles against the Alien Tribes and Ferocious Beasts now seeming a bit disorganized.

They couldn’t imagine, with insufficient realm, what did Pang Jian rely on to kill Lou Yunming?

Relied on the Star-shattering Umbrella?

The Black Crow Pot in Lou Yunming’s hand was also a high-level Spiritual Artifact, and Lou Yunming was a Great Cultivator of the Spirit Condensation Realm!

Stepping on a Black Iron Mountain and shattering the wing bones of the Heaven Clan’s Yu Gu, leaving only two pairs of bone wings, Cao Mang’s diminutive body exploded with a heaven-startling aura.

Atop the peak of the Black Iron Mountain, whose shape was similar to Yuanmang’s first peak—treacherous and coldly austere—he wore a somber expression.

His brows were deeply furrowed as he stared at Pang Jian.

Not far away.

Yu Gu, the leader of the Heaven Clan, was in such a miserable state it seemed he might die at any moment; most of his bones were already shattered, and he managed to dodge the Black Iron Mountain.

He breathed heavily, blood flowing ceaselessly over his body, his bones crackling with every breath.

He, too, looked at Pang Jian with astonishment.

From the moment they had charged to the mountain’s peak to now, the Human Race had never had internal strife; they had worked together to fight, all intending to deal with them quickly.

But after the Star-shattering Umbrella flew to the mountain’s peak and the youth in blue reached the top, the situation seemed to suddenly change.

He could feel that difficult-to-handle couples like Cao Mang, Madam Hua, and the likes of Jiuyuan, Lou Yunming, and Yang Rui, who were among the strongest, all harbored malice towards the youth in blue.

Even more bizarre...

The youth in blue also seemed to be so, and possessed extraordinary power, which also caused the difficult elder of the Yin Spirit Temple to die a tragic death.

"A turning point is an opportunity!"

Yu Gu stared at Pang Jian under the Star-shattering Umbrella and howled up at the sky.

All the Alien Tribes’ powerhouses and the remaining sixth-level Ferocious Beasts followed Yu Gu’s gaze to Pang Jian, deciphering the implication of that howl.

—Don’t attack the Human youth in blue.

Among them, the woman from the Wood Tribe wearing the Thorn Crown glanced at Pang Jian, her emerald eyes suddenly showing a flash of realization.

She suddenly remembered that a tribesman had reported to her, saying he had seen a Human youth holding a silver spear, emanating a scent of a concoction blessed by a Goddess, marking him as a special person not to be offended.

They said the spear-wielding Human youth also exuded a rich and pure... Life Vitality.

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